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Team Fortress 2: Classless Update Goes Live

We like Valve's Team Fortress 2 updates, mainly because they stretch our over a number of days and give us something to look forward to. The past two days have seen us report on the new Classless update, which has now actually gone live.

The full patch notes are pretty large, but seeing as we care about you, here they are:

New Content:

Added King Of The Hill game mode.

Added custom animations played by the losing team during the post-win state. They are moved into third person camera to enjoy them.

Added lots of new hats.

Added koth_Viaduct.

Added ctf_Sawmill

Added community map Arena_Offblast

Added community map Cp_Yukon

Additions / Changes:

Added "Auto Reload" option to the multiplayer advanced options.

Clip-based weapons that reload a full clip at a time can now have their reloads aborted by firing.

Pistol now fires at a fixed rate, not based on the speed at which you press the firing button.

Added a color blind option to add a Jarate icon above enemies who are busy accepting a terrifying existence where they have no dignity.

Significantly reduced the amount of network traffic being sent.

Capturing the flag in a CTF game mode gives the entire capturing team 10 seconds of critboost.

Sappers attached to a teleporter automatically place another Sapper on the other end of the teleporter, if it exists.

Engineers wrenching a teleporter will repair the other end as well, and remove Sappers from both if they exist.

Update PLR_Pipeline - Increased the starting advantage in the third round if a team has won the first two rounds. - Fixed carts not continuing to the second round if they're capped at the same time in the first round. - Fixed being able to shoot pipebombs over the starting gates in the first round. - Fixed being able to open the doors in the first round before the setup time was finished. - Fixed players getting stuck in some doors. - Fixed players being able to get onto rooftops and out of the map boundaries. - Fixed other minor bugs and exploits.

Update Arena_Sawmill - Fixed DirectX8 bug where some models would not be visible. - Fixed exploit with building teleporters outside of the map.

Updated CP_Granary - Made a few changes to improve balance based on competitive community feedback.

Item Reworks:

The Force of Nature - The enemy knockback now only works in close range and behaves more like the Pyro's air blast. - Enemies cannot be juggled by the FaN's effect. - The self-knockback has also changed to respect the firer's view angle. Looking up while shooting will no longer propel the enemy upwards. - Knockback is now scaled by damage done.

The Sandman - A Scout will receive 1 point for stunning an enemy and 2 points for a long range stun. - Stunned players now take 75% of all incoming damage instead of 50%. - Ubercharged players can no longer be stunned. - Heavies spinning their mini-guns will continue to spin when stunned (whether the left or right mouse button is pressed). - The minimum distance to stun a target has been reduced. - The negative attribute has changed from "no double jump" to "-30 max health".

Fixes:

Fixed various issues around layout & presentation of items inside the Backpack and "X is carrying" item dialogs.

Fixed an exploit that allowed players to work around sv_pure.

Particle files are now protected by sv_pure.

Fixed critboost effect getting stuck on when you die while critboosted.

Fixed Timer HUD element backgrounds not being the correct color if you change teams during waiting for players.

Fixed a couple of issues with the way critboosts affected The Huntsman and the Spy's knife.

Fixed an exploit where you could reload The Huntsman faster than intended.

Fixed Heavy "civilian" exploit.

Fixed a set of exploits using the DXSupport config files.

Fixed r_screenfademinsize and r_screenfademaxsize exploits.

Fixed sentries firing at a fully cloaked Spy if they're still the closest target.

Community requests:

Added a HUD element for hybrid CTF & CP maps. - Supports 1 or 2 flags, and any number of CPs. - Mapmakers need to place a "tf_logic_hybrid_ctf_cp" entity in their map to enable it.

Added new "medic_death" event for server logs Format: "%s%i>%s>%s>" triggered "medic_death" against "%s%i>%s>%s>" (healing "%d") (ubercharge "%s") - healing is the amount the Medic healed in that life - ubercharge (1/0) is whether they died with a full charge

Added "func_respawnflag" trigger entity. It will remove & return the flag if a flag carrier touches it, or if the flag falls into it.